Our Process

In the interest of the many women we help and for the sake of the counselors that spend their time reaching out to them, I thought I should take a blog to speak about how a session usually goes and how a counselor like me feels about it.
I work at the Brooklyn center most of the time so there is a different order of things than some other centers. A girl comes in, signs in and fills out a form herself in front of us. We may establish some light conversation just to get over our friendly and helpful nature early on. Next we have them sit down to watch a video on fetal development, an abortion risks DVD, and lastly they are shown Choice Blues, but are not obligated to watch it. Depending on when a girl signed in, they are given a consultation before or after a sonogram.
The consultation is the key to the turnaround we are looking to get from the girl. Though we start with casual conversation, about family, school, jobs, it is so we get a better look into the lives of the women and establish a friendship so they will listen to what we really want to talk about. Abortion bound women do not want to hear about the baby so we then get them to think of the their lives as a mother, to no longer think of their next decision to be between the child or herself but themselves with a child. Once they have a more open mind about keeping a child, that is when we inform them of the assistance we are capable of.
I can't directly speak for all the interns but I think we know that this work can get complicated yet still gratifying. Love for the work we do is what keeps us together and working through any difficulties to be apart of this program, nothing more, nothing less.